Elspeth Tilley
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| Born | Elspeth Nina Tilley |
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| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
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| Institutions | Massey University |
Elspeth Nina Tilley is an Australian playwright, actor and academic and is a full professor at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand.
Academic career
Tilley earned a BA(Hons) in 1996 at the University of Queensland with a thesis called More than one and solo: subjectivity in contemporary Australian and Canadian monodrama, which she followed with a PhD in drama and literature in 2007.[1] Her doctoral thesis, also at Queensland, was titled White vanishing: a settler Australian hegemonic textual strategy, 1789-2006.[2][3] After this Tilley moved to Massey University, where she was promoted to full professor in 2023.[4] Tilley's research covers theatre, performance, literature, media and public communication, examining ethics and social justice.[5] She has published four books, including White Vanishing and Creative Activism: Research, Pedagogy and Practice.[4] Tilley's plays have been published in Canada, New Zealand, the USA and the UK, produced around the world. Her plays have featured in a variety of festivals including the British Theatre Challenge, Short + Sweet, Pint Sized Plays NZ, Climate Change Theatre Action, Stage-It 2 and have been translated into French, Italian, and Belizean Creole.[4][2]
Awards and honours
Tilley has won the British Theatre Challenge three times, in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[6] Tilley was an official playwright for Climate Change Theatre Action in 2015, 2017, and 2019.[6] She has also been awarded the Playwrights’ Association of New Zealand Outstanding Achievement Award (2018),[7] three teaching excellence awards, a Peking University Research Fellowship and a Prime Minister’s Group Scholarship to Latin America.[4]
Selected plays
- Waiting for Go, 2017 (short play, winner of British Theatre Challenge in 2017)
- Bunnies & Wolves, 2018 (short play, winner of British Theatre Challenge in 2018)
- Fabio the Great, 2019 (short play, winner of British Theatre Challenge in 2019 and awarded ‘Best Play’ by audience vote at Pint Sized Plays New Zealand, 2019)
- World, 2019 (finalist in Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest at Castillo Theatre in New York; equal first place in 2019 Playwrights’ Association of New Zealand Long Play Contest)
- Te Hā Tangata: The breath of the people (verbatim play about houseless people)
Selected academic works
- Elspeth Tilley (2023) Applied theatre as transdisciplinary research: JustUs and the quest for second-order change, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2023.2184682
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References
- ↑ Tilley, Elspeth (1996). More than one and solo : subjectivity in contemporary Australian and Canadian monodrama (BA(Hons) thesis).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Elspeth Tilley". HowlRound Theatre Commons. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ↑ Tilley, Elspeth Nina (2007). White vanishing : a settler Australian hegemonic textual strategy, 1789-2006 (PhD thesis). University of Queensland.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "2022 Professorial promotions announced". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ↑ "Elspeth Tilley". The Conversation. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Elspeth Tilley". www.playmarket.org.nz. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ↑ "Outstanding Achievement Awards". Playwrights Association of New Zealand (Inc). 19 January 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
External links
- Tilley's articles at The Conversation